 “In the end I find I can’t separate brain from body. Consciousness isn’t just in the head. Nor is it a question of mind over body. If one takes into account the DNA directing the dance of the peptides, [the] body is the outward manifestation of the mind.” - Candace Pert, Ph.D., former chief brain biochemist, National Institute of Mental Health When we take medication, we believe that the body functions separately. If I have low back pain, the medication will go to my low back area and fix it. This is not true. We now know that medications are a full body interaction which involve the liver, stomach, etc. Illness is looking at our body separate from our life. I can put a drug into this part and not have it affect something else. Wellness is experiencing the connection. The connection between your body and your life. I had a patient who had perfect vision during the first 35 years of her life. One day, she started to notice it was slowly getting harder to see clearly. When she went to the eye doctor, she was told that she was in the age range where she would need reading glasses and it’s normal. Most people would then buy glasses and go on with their lives. Instead, this practice member decided to search for why this was happening now. This lead her to look at her relationship with her husband, which had been going downhill for a while. They had stopped communicating and things were not getting any better and this was something she was not willing to see. Because there was something she did not want to acknowledge and see, her body made it so she didn’t. She has since separated form her husband and her eyesight has not deteriorated any further. The body is all connected, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. The body does not perform as a cluster of separate mechanisms instead as a cascade of events that starts with proper control by the nervous system. The brain sends and receives messages through the spine to every cell, organ, tissue, gland, muscle and joint of the body. The spine also provides structure and flexibility to the entire body. When the brain and body connection become impaired, tension, disease, stress, disconnection become the filters through which we interpret and react to the world in and around us. There is no disease that isn’t emotional and mental as well. This malfunctioning connection in turn creates tension patterns that get anchored into our nervous system and stored into our bodies. Need some help connecting with the inner you? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.
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 Imagine that your body is in a state of constant stress and it feels as if it’s a constant battle each day? Your body will then only allow you to keep experiencing the signals needed for survival. As long as you are in a protected or defended state, your body won’t release the other stored experiences. This then, creates tension throughout your body as more and more emotions and events accumulate. The body will compensate and adapt until it can no longer do so and then eventually, it will snap. You’ve heard the expression of the straw that broke the camel’s back? That how some people end up in my office. They bend over to put their socks on and their back gives out on them. It was not simply that one event. Our bodies are meant to have flexibility and range of movement....putting our socks on alone should not cause that kind of pain. People Don’t Mind Pain Can you think of a situation in which someone could experience pain and be happy about it? What about a mother who is about to give birth? They are in pain and yet they know that there will be a good outcome for the pain. I had a friend who suddenly developed a virus in her brain. She ended up paralyzed from neck down and couldn’t feel anything. One day, she felt excruciating pain in her toe and she was ecstatic and overjoyed. It meant that she could feel again. For a lighter example, have you ever been to the gym and the next day was so sore from your workout and also feeling great? These examples show that it is not simply about the pain. People do not mind being in pain! People mind having pain and being fearful of it! Need some help connecting with the inner you? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  When a traumatic event occurs in life i.e. accident, loss of loved one, and the number of messages that our body receives is too overwhelming, we create tension to protect ourselves. Take a car accident for instance. When someone gets into a car accident, every single cell, tissue, organ, body part moves on impact. All these movements are all registered in your body. Now, because there are so many signals at one time, your body does a triage system where the most important for your survival will register first. So, when the ambulance came to check on you, the paramedics will ask what hurts. At that moment, they may say their head. The brain is one of the most vital organs for survival so it would register first. So, they are taken away to the hospital for further examination. A week goes by after the accident and suddenly, they notice that their right knee is hurting. It occurs to them then that their knee also hit the dashboard during the accident. Had their body known this the entire time? Yes, yet the knee wasn’t as critical as the brain for survival so the body ignored it until a later time. When your body has too many signals to handle, it will choose what you need in the moment for survival. This can also occur for cases of emotional or mental trauma. Certain feelings will be experienced first that are needed the most to defend yourself i.e. anger and then later, other emotions may creep in. The emotions that are developed are for moving away from things. i.e. danger, fear. Increasing Your Range of Emotion Imagine that when you were 6 years old, I gave you a box of 6 crayons. Whenever you coloured, you would only see the world through those crayons. Let’s say for you 7th birthday, I gave you a box of 64. You now have a whole new world. If you currently respond to the world in 2 emotions, anger and fear, whenever something happened to you, you could only respond with anger and fear. Now, what if we gave you angry, irritated, annoyed and bothered? Now, you can choose any of these emotions to experience your world. On the other side, instead of good, how about exceptional, outstanding, joy, gratitude, benevolence? The more range of emotion you can in your body, the more range of motion you have. Emotion equals motion. Need some help connecting with the inner you? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  There are many reasons why a person first comes into my office for care.
It could be because: • A nagging pain • Recurrent ailment • A new pain • A stressful event (physically, emotionally, mentally) • A desire for more ease in life and joy • A ‘persistent’, yet loving family member, friend or co-worker said so. Regardless of the motivation, the underlying hope in most of us is that we want our individual problem fixed and we’re looking to someone else to do it. In order to be fixed, you must first be broken. You are not broken. Read that again: You. Are. Not. Broken. “What?” you may ask. “Then why am I not healing???” Imagine you are talking on your cell phone with someone and in the middle of a conversation, the signal is dropped. Do you think your phone is broken or have you simply lost your connection? Healing is not about correction because you’re broken. It is about connection between your body (spine) and brain. Need some help connecting with the inner you? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  How often have you heard someone say “My mother had it, my aunt has it, and my cousin has it, I am destined to get it too” or “It’s all in the genes”? The truth is, according to Dr. Bruce Lipton, 80-90% of all diseases are actually stress and lifestyle. Even in the case of identical twins, 70% of diseases that result are environmental and related to lifestyle. If we take cancer alone, an article published in the NCBI shows that only 5-10% of all cancer cases can be attributed to genetic defects whereas the remaining 90-95% have their roots in the environment and lifestyle. This is great news! While it’s hard to change our genes, it is possible to make changes to the way we think and feel about life. It also means that we get to take more responsibility for our health. The Bioterrain The bioterrain is the environment inside your body. It contains the fluids, nutrients, minerals, etc. Each cell is made up of a membrane that surrounds it. This cell membrane controls the internal environment of the cell by allowing fluids, nutrients, etc. to flow in and out. It is therefore important to have both a good, healthy environment inside your body and cell membrane layer. What makes up your environment and your membranes? The building blocks from your cell membrane come from the food you eat. Your cells use the nutrients that you feed it to replicate and grow. Cells made up of deep fried french fries versus a green salad will be created differently simply because of the raw materials you use. You literally are made up of what you eat. The reason that diseases “run in the family” is because beliefs, behaviours, and structures run in the family. An interesting study found that people who were considered to be the “black sheep” of the family, tended to not suffer the same diseases as the rest of the family. Ill health occurs because you did not make the change in your life when you needed to make it. Change could be physical such as in exercise and diet, stress related, work, relationships, speaking up, etc. When life is calling you to be or do one thing and you resist, tension starts to build up in your body and your spine and if not resolved, your body may start to get signals. Need some help connecting with the inner you? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  Believe it or not, our body is designed to bring inspiration and pleasure. Ever watch olympic athletes and marvel at what is possible for our human body? Those athletes push their body to the maximum and to new limits, breaking records and dazzling audiences. Billions of people around the world are inspired to cheer or get involved in athletics themselves. A 100m race is over in less than 10 seconds and each athlete is so fine tuned and aware that they know what each body part is doing at any given moment. There exists within us a great intelligence. This innate intelligence allows us to heal ourselves. Dr. Christiane Northrup says “It is possible to thrive in a body instead of simply waiting for disease to happen. It boils down to this: Regardless of our individual circumstances, each of us has inner guidance available that we can tune in to in order to create vibrant health- now. We are born with this inner guidance, which comes in the form of the emotions and desires that lead us toward things that feel good and are good for us, and away from things that feel bad. It is that simple.” Our body is in a constant state of flux. Cells in our body die and regenerate all the time. Our red blood cells live about 120 days while white blood cells live more than a year. Skin cells live about 2-3 weeks and colon cells die off after about 4 days. If we cut our finger or break a bone, our body can heal from it. We don’t question this. So, why is it that we don’t believe we can heal from low back pain or neck pain, or even cancer? If our body has a healing intelligence, why is it we only believe it works for the “small” things and not the “big” things? Cut and bruises are ok, headaches are not. There is a limiting belief here. If our body is always regenerating, why is it that we still have the same hurts we had years ago? Patients come in all the time and tell me that their neck has been hurting since the car accident they had 15 years ago. The individual cells of the neck have already regenerated and so were not the same ones that got into the accident, so why hasn’t your body healed from that yet? It’s because it’s our consciousness that does the remembering. Our perceptions, thoughts, emotions, structures and behaviour patterns give off a certain vibration or frequency in the cell and that’s what is remembered. A cell must forget who it’s been and move beyond for healing to occur. Need some help connecting with the inner you? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  Too often, we give up our control or power to someone external to us, who we think may know more than us. You may say, my medical doctor is an expert and studied medicine, they must know what’s best for me and my body. This is not entirely true. Your medical doctor has studied diseases and knows a lot of information, they are not however, an expert on you. Sometimes when I ask someone “tell me what you think is wrong with you.”, they will answer, “you tell me, you’re the doctor”. We’ve been trained to look outside ourselves for the answer instead of searching within. The truth is, you are an expert in your own body. No one is more knowledgeable about your body than you. If you’re thinking, “oh, no”, then it’s time to now get better acquainted with your own body and start to become aware of the messages that it’s trying to tell you. When I went through chiropractic school, I was taught how to recognise all types of diseases, illness, pathologies and how to treat them. What they did not teach me is how to help someone who is well. We didn’t look at people who were doing well, without symptoms and ask, how can they function at an even higher level than they are now? Doctor’s learn to identify and treat disease and they are well trained in what they do. They don’t know if you are well. Wellness is your domain. When people go to the medical doctor for their regular checkups, they are not looking to see if they are well, they are looking to see if you are “sick” in some way. It is possible to have a disease and to be well, emotionally, mentally and spiritually as wellness is not merely the absence of disease. Next time someone gives you health information, do your own research and inform yourself before making your decision. Remember that there are no ‘side effects’, there are only effects. Need some help connecting with the inner you? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  When we try to remain the same even when it’s not appropriate, this creates tension in our body. The tension builds and builds and then either drives us towards change or to pain, dysfunction and eventually, disease. Dr. Donald Epstein says that disease happens when we did not make the change in our life that we were supposed to. This could be a change in diet and exercise habits, it could mean speaking up, getting out of a bad relationship, etc. Life is supposed to hurt and be painful if you are not doing what you are supposed to be doing. If you are not joyful, if you’re not following your passions and your purpose, it is supposed to hurt. Questions to ask yourself: In what areas of my health do I currently feel stuck? In which areas of my relationships am I feeling stuck? Treatment without changing If we treat the disease and don’t change our lives, we simply try to restore ourselves to the way we used to be. Remember, our old selves is what got us to the pain in the first place! Instead, we need to change who we are being and upgrade ourselves for the future. Rather than trying to be who we were in the past, we evolve into the person the future requires us to be. Need some help evolving into the person that your future requires you to be? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  If you bought a 60 yr old home and had some money to put into creating it however you like, what would you do?
If you chose to restore it to its original state 60 years ago, you’d have small bedrooms and bathrooms, old plumbing, creaky flooring, etc. Instead, if you chose to redesign it, you could take out some walls, expand the kitchen and build a garage to suit your family’s needs for now. As times change, the world around us also changes. Prices in food, water and gas increase and fluctuate all the time. Do your thoughts and perceptions also shift to go along with the times or are you still thinking the same way as you were 5 years ago? In other words, are your thoughts, emotions and body able to adapt to the changes that life asks you to make? Stuck in our ways When we try to remain the same even when it’s not appropriate, this creates tension in our body. The tension builds and builds and then either drives us towards change or to pain, dysfunction and eventually, disease. Dr. Donald Epstein says that disease happens when we did not make the change in our life that we were supposed to. This could be a change in diet and exercise habits, it could mean speaking up, getting out of a bad relationship, etc. Life is supposed to hurt and be painful if you are not doing what you are supposed to be doing. If you are not joyful, if you’re not following your passions and your purpose, it is supposed to hurt. Treatment without changing If we treat the disease and don’t change our lives, we simply try to restore ourselves to the way we used to be. Remember, our old selves is what got us to the pain in the first place! Instead, we need to change who we are being and upgrade ourselves for the future. Rather than trying to be who we were in the past, we evolve into the person the future requires us to be. Need some help evolving into the person that your future requires you to be? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  Imagine you are a postman and you had a letter that you had to deliver. You go to the house and knock on the door. No one is home so you decide to come back the next day. The next day, you see a car in the driveway, so you knock on the front door again and perhaps you go around to the back door and knock there. On the third day, as you’re walking up to the house, you see the curtain move in the window...now, you know that someone is home. You knock on the front door, side door and no one answers. Because you know someone is home, you knock louder and louder until finally, the door opens and the person shouts “what do you want????” You hand them your letter and you leave.
Pain is your letter, and the message has to be delivered. It will start off subtle and keep knocking at your door until you decide to answer. The good news is, once you open the door and receive your message, the pain goes away. But, what do most people do instead? They numb out the messages from their body. They eat more food, sit on the couch and watch TV, go shopping, or take drugs to distract themselves from experiencing and feeling. In general, when a pain or body signal comes up, people turn to over-the-counter medication, such as Advil or Tylenol. They try to numb the pain so that they don’t feel it anymore. If that doesn’t work, they turn to something stronger, such as prescription drugs. Imagine you had hurt your knee running and decided to take Advil or Tylenol to numb the pain. If the Advil “worked” and your knee pain stopped, does that mean that your knee is no longer damaged? No! It means that you have successfully “tricked” your brain into thinking that everything is ok when it’s not. What would happen if you now continued to go running on your injured knee? You’d probably hurt yourself even more. How does the medication know where to go? When people take a pill, they imagine that the pill knows exactly where to go in order to relieve them of their symptoms. This is not true. Imagine you had a backache and took Advil for the pain. The pill does not have little massagers that go directly to your back pain to relieve it. The medication does not have a GPS system on it nor does it know how to locate only one area to create an effect. When taking medication, it works on your ENTIRE BODY at the same time to numb it all out! Medication is also tough on the liver that needs to detoxify the chemicals that are now in your body. Now, I’m not saying that all medication is bad. Medication has its place in healthcare and it needs to be used with caution and care. By developing your body awareness, you can receive your body’s messages at an earlier stage and avoid the suffering altogether! Need some help with developing your body awareness? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE. |
AuthorDr. Amanda is a non-traditional chiropractor who focuses on Neuro-Optimization Chiropractic in Ottawa, Canada. 
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